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499 "There was so much to do":Garry Wills, "Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case," reprinted in The New Journalism , ed. Tom Wolfe, p. 393.

500 "The body appeared unblemished":Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down , p. 448.

501 "We all wanted to be there":Young, Easy Burden , p. 469.

502 "It will spoil the makeup job":Wills, "Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case," reprinted in New Journalism , p. 394.

503 "I wish it was Henry Loeb":Ibid., p. 395.

504 "Why'd this happen to you":My description of the public viewing at the R. S. Lewis Funeral Home on the morning of April 5 is drawn from the Memphis Commercial Appeal , April 6, 1968, as well as from Beifuss, At the River I Stand , pp. 315-16.

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505 "I thought it was a provocation":Author interview with Clark, Oct. 9, 2008, New York City.

506 "What a message that was":Ibid.

507 "To see these men":Roger Wilkins interview, Roads to Memphis , an Insignia Films documentary produced for the PBS program American Experience , WGBH, Boston.

508 "gracious in a Southern kind of way":Ibid.

509 "He was just about out on his feet":Beifuss, At the River I Stand , p. 325.

510 "I had not a scintilla":Holloman's testimony in House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports , vol. 4, p. 332.

511 "All of our evidence":Clark's comments from his Memphis press conference were printed in the Memphis Press-Scimitar , April 5, 1968, and the Memphis Commercial Appeal , April 6, 1968.

512 "In view of Mr. Hoover's":DeLoach, Hoover's FBI , p. 229.

513 "courageous and calm":Wilkins, Man's Life , p. 212.

514 "a bloated and faded version":Ibid.

515 "We'll do everything we can":DeLoach, Hoover's FBI , p. 229.

516 "We aren't so much concerned":Andrew Young, in Roads to Memphis .

517 "Why, it's sitting right out there":FBI interview with Capitol Homes tenants in "Eric Starvo Galt, Bureau File #44-38861" prepared by Special Agent Alan G. Sentinella of the Atlanta field office, filed on April 18, 1968, Hughes Collection. I also adapted material here from "Capitol Homes Stirred Up by That Mustang," Atlanta Constitution , April 22, 1968.

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518 "Please know that I join you":King senior to Johnson, telegram, quoted in Risen, Nation on Fire , p. 89.

519 "If I were a kid in Harlem":Busby, Thirty-first of March , p. 238.

520 "Help us, Lord":Ibid., p. 239.

521 "take as many white people":Stokely Carmichael, quoted in Risen, Nation on Fire , p. 93.

522 "Gentlemen, I think you better see this":Busby, Thirty-first of March , p. 239.

523 Morris S. Clark:Here I consulted the FBI Crime Lab's initial fiber analysis in "Report of the FBI Laboratory, FBI, April 17, 1968, Evidence Recovered in Front of 424 So. Main St. April 4th, 1968," p. 9, Hughes Collection.

524 quickly dispatched to Rompage:See Frank, American Death , p. 142.

525 tiny tag was made of white tape:Here I primarily consulted the eighteen-page FBI report "Investigation to Trace the Laundry Marks Found on Underwear Abandoned near the Scene of the Shooting of Dr. King," Hughes Collection.

526 "I thought of the brittle smile":Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down , p. 450.

527 "Martin was unworried":Ibid.

528 "Daddy is lying down in the back":Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King Jr. , p. 325.

529 "I'd look around":Dexter Scott King, Growing Up King , p. 52.

530 "Mother knew I was avoiding":Ibid.

531 "looked so young and smooth":Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King Jr. , p. 325.

532 "Uncle Andy, this man":Young, Easy Burden , p. 470.

533 buying a one-way ticket:My account of Ray's bus trip north is drawn from his statements and testimony in House Select Committee on Assassinations (hereafter HSCA), Appendix Reports , vol. 3, p. 245, as well as from his two books, Tennessee Waltz , p. 81, and Who Killed Martin Luther King? p. 98. I also consulted Ray's own account for his lawyers, "20,000 Words," Hughes Collection.

534 DR. KING SHOT: Atlanta Constitution , April 5, 1968, p. 1.

535 checked his suitcase in to a locker:HSCA, Appendix Reports , vol. 3, p. 245.

536 boarded a second bus:Ibid.

537 bottle of the finest sherry:Oral history with Ramsey Clark, interview 4, conducted by Harri Baker on April 16, 1969, Johnson Presidential Library.

538 "We had considerably more evidence":Author interview with Clark, Oct. 9, 2008, New York City.

539 "We are virtually unique":Clark, Crime in America , p. 95.

540 "to dam the flood":DeLoach, Hoover's FBI , p. 230.

541 now occupied by federal troops:My depictions of the D.C. riots here are largely drawn from Risen, Nation on Fire , and Gilbert et al., Ten Blocks from the White House .

542 "the air of a parliament":The columnist Mary McGrory, quoted in Risen, Nation on Fire , p. 127.

543 "In all my life":Author interview with Clark.

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544 coach reached the Motor City:See James Earl Ray's testimony in House Select Committee on Assassinations, Appendix Reports , vol. 3, p. 245, as well as his two books, Tennessee Waltz , p. 81, and Who Killed Martin Luther King? p. 98, and Ray's own account for his lawyers, "20,000 Words," Hughes Collection.

545 "It is better to overreact":Cavanaugh, quoted in Risen, Nation on Fire , p. 141.

546 Galt later claimed that he stashed his suitcase:See Huie, He Slew the Dreamer , p. 148.

547 Mrs. Szpakowski showed him up to the room:My description of Ray's room on Ossington, and his behavior and actions while staying there as a guest, is largely drawn from O'Neil, "Ray, Sirhan--What Possessed Them?" I also relied on a special report, "King Murder Suspect Held--He Hid 1 Month in Metro," Toronto Daily Star , June 8, 1968, p. 1. Finally, I also relied on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Files, a large body of documents concerning Ray's time in Toronto, Hughes Collection.

548 Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte:See Poitier, This Life , pp. 319-20.

549 "I didn't want to face Coretta":Georgia Davis Powers, I Shared the Dream , p. 233.

550 "Sorry for what?":Ibid., p. 234.

551 didn't leave his room:See Huie, He Slew the Dreamer , p. 149, and Posner, Killing the Dream , pp. 239-40.

552 He was in Baltimore:See Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover , p. 606.